French Wine
#ac1e44
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ac1e44
RGB
172, 30, 68
OKLCh
48.9% 0.176 12.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.7, 57.0, 16.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.4; on black, Lc -19.5. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 27.3 and 38.7 and 51.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.02:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ac1e44
protanopia
#444445 · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#65653e · ΔE00 38.7
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 51.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarmoisine at ΔE00 1.388: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CarmoisineΔE00 1.388 · #b31c45
- Bloody PeriphyllaΔE00 1.734 · #aa1144
- Fancy Red WineΔE00 1.762 · #b40441
- BresaolaΔE00 1.851 · #a9203e
- True CrimsonΔE00 1.971 · #a22042
- Ruby QueenΔE00 1.974 · #b0063d
- Screamer PinkΔE00 2.084 · #ab0040
- She PoutsΔE00 2.108 · #ab214b
- Con BrioΔE00 2.209 · #b12845
- Bindi RedΔE00 2.212 · #b0003c
- Warrior QueenΔE00 2.23 · #a32d48
- M. BisonΔE00 2.416 · #b4023d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.